Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

Stem-cell research on embryos is an even worse excuse for the slaughter of life than abortion. No woman is even being spared an inconvenience this time.... It's just harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter.

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

There’s no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?

The Russian story's all an excuse for the Democrats losing. That's a total witch hunt, the whole Russia story. It's a hoax. It's a hoax. We had no collusion with Russia. We never dealt with Russia.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof.

The sleepy like to make excuses.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.